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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-03
THE STATE OF TEXAS.

To the Sheriff or any Constable of Dallas
county-Greeting
VOU are hereby commanded, that by
l. making publication OF this citation In
some newspaper, published in the county
of Dallas, for four consecutive weeks, pre-
vious to the return day hereof, you summon
4. q. Bowen who Is a non resident OF the
State of Texas, to be and appear before the
District Court to be holden IN and for the
county OF Dallas at the courthouse thereof,
In the city OF Dallas, on the second Monday
In December next, then and there TO an
swer to the petition OF Annie V. Bowen
led in said court on the Sth day of Novcm-
Der, 1887. against the said C.. G.. Bowen,
and alleging In substance as follows to-
wit:
That plaintiff and defendant were mar
ried April 2lst, 1850. That defendant soon
after their said marriage began course of
unkind, harsh and neglectful conduct to-
wards nlainsiti, and that on or about De-
t0ber LIST, 1884 defendant abandoned plain
tiff and has continued TO remain away from
her and failed to support her. Prays judge
ment for divorce, custody of minor child
Geraldine, costs of suit, etc ,etc.
Herein Tail not, but have you then and
there before said court this writ. with your
return thereon, showing how yen have ex-
ecuted the same.
Witness, II. w. Jones, clerk of the Dis
trict Court of Dallas county Texas. Given
under my hand and seal of said court at OF
flee in city of Dallas. this the sth day OF
November, A. ID. 1887.
+ Clerk District Court, Dallas 60.
l l.. 5. BY j. II. stewart
Deputy
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-03
Pianos for rent at Frees & Sons


You are feeling depressed, your ap
petite is poor, you are bothered with
Headache, you are fidgety, nervous
and generally out Of sorts, and want
to brace up. Brace up, but not with
stimulants, spring medicines or bitters,
. which have for their basis very cheap
bad whisky, and which stimulate you
for an hour. and then leave you in a
worse condition than before. What
you want is an Alternative that will
purify your Mood, start healthy action
of Liver and Kidneys, restore your
vitality and give renewed health and
strength. Such a medicine you will
find N Electric Bittcrs, and only 80
cent? , bottle, at w. ii. Howell e.
Broi 'arug Store
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-03
Organs for rent at Frees Il Sons.

Concentrated mineral water in bot.
ties al SOC and 81 each. Crystals CT
mineral water 75c per pound. Miner
al water fresh all the time at w. L.
Hancock a. Co, 926 Elm street.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-03

Whips and lap robes, asplendid line
for pleasure vehicles and headquarters
for those wanting leather of all kinds,
shoe findings and furnishings-at
Padgett Bros, wholesale and retail
sadlers.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-03
Best Hogs EEssHsSOuth,

The small boned English York
shires took $40 premium at the
Texas State Fair last fall. More
flesh for same feed than any hog. I
have a few left which ! can spare,
and some ha I led The year
vigorous and good breeders. They
can be seen one-fourth mile north
of Fair ground on Santa Fe rail-
road. ]. M. BR0WDER,
Dallas. Texas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-03
Trains ON Oak Cliff Elevated Railway
WILL PIN EDIII0Wg.
WILL RUN AS FOLLON

win stop at FIRST, Third, Fifth, Eighth an'
Tenth Street Stations. Trains will run un
Ill II p. m. on special occasions. Fare Il
cents TO residents OF Oak Cliff. cents
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
George Washington as o Farmer.

The following is an extract from an
almanac published in 1900: General
Washington possesses 10, 900 acres of
land in one body, where he lives; con-
stantly employs 240 hands; keeps 25
ploughs going all the year, when the
weather will permit; sowed in 1887,
600 bushel of oats, roo acres of wheat
and prepared as much corn, barley. pota-
toes, beans, peas, etc. has near 500 acre,
in grass and sowed 150 with turnips.
Stock, 14O horses, liz cows, 235 work
ing oxen, hcifers and steers, and 500
sheep. The lands about his seat are all
laid down in grass, the farms are scat
tered at the distance of two, three, four
or five miles, which the general visits
every day unless the weather is abso-
lutely stormy. He is constantly making
various and extensive experiments for
the Improvement of agriculture. He is
stimulated with that dcs. which always
actuates him-to do good to mankind.
In 1856 he killed 15O hogs, weighing
1s, 500 pounds, for his family use, ex-
elusive OF provisions for his negroes,
which was made into bacon"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
Watches Without Hands,

The construction of watches without
hands has lately attracted some atten-
tion, the usual hands being replaced by
figures denoting the hour and minute,
which appear at openings in the dial
plate; the mechanism is simple, and
only few more parts arc required than
in an ordinary watch. Two wheels are
used to denote the minutes--,one which
moves forward once in minute, being
geared to a second one, marked with the
ten minute figures, aud every ten minutes
tooth on the first wheel engages with
the teeth on the second, moving it for
ward one figure, Thus, every minute of
the hour is shown on the face of the
watch, and, at its completion, both
minute wheels show two ciphcrs, and
are ready to begin the round again; the
hour is shown on a separate wheel, and
an ordinary hand indicates the seconds.
OF the advantages of this kind of watch,
it is remarked that few people read the
time of an ordinary watch accurately,
and, if the experiment is tried of ganc-
ing at the face in the usual manner, and
then naming the time, it will be found
that an error of from half minute to
three minutes will be- generally made
With the new watch, it is claimed, no
error can possibly occur, and there is
the added advantage that, at tho end of
every minute, an audible click is sounded
as the number changes, by which one
can measure short intervals of time,
even at night.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
A Good Word for Puss.

Cats are sometimes accused of being
treacherous; this appearance is wholly
owing to timidity, says writer in the
Boston Transcript. Whatever faults
they may have may be traced generally
to the way they are treated. If a cat is
kept hungry she will be thief, and I
d not blame her. If she is struck and
kicked she will use her claws, and who
can blame her. II she is left out in the
cold shivering, she will visit and often
take up her abode with another who is
kind to her. 1t does not become man to
accuse her of treachery, for man is the
most treacherous of all animals. But
whoever may neglect or ill-treat them,
they have more friends than enemies.
They are the companions of the sick
and lonely, the pets of childhood aud
age, and the faithful servants of man.
have friend who, when her Sambo is
asleep in her armchair, will take less
comfortable one for fear of disturbing
him; like the caliph who cut off the
corner of his costly robs 20 rise without
awakening his favoritc pet. l have
another friend who all winter puts her
cat, James Garfield, to bed in his barrel
with hot soapstone. Some may laugh
at this, but is not extreme kindness far
better than extreme crueltyl
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19

Turkish women rarely go out alone.
They promenade in parties of from three
to six, but they arc never accompanied
by any man, unless one dcigns to call q
man the eunuch whose duty it is to pro-
tect theug and especially to watch
them. This white or black Cerberus
does not hesitate to lash with horse
whip the audacious stranger that should
think of looking too closely at the in
mates of the harem committed to his
care. A minister plenipotentiary had
proof of this fact once, and he has never
been able to obtain redress.
The daughters of Islam are strictly
forbidden to stop, to greet, or even to
have the appearance of recognizing a
man, be he their brother, their husband,
or their father; and when the latter
recognize, beneath the yachmak, wo-
man belonging to their harem, they must
pass on without making her any greet
ing or any sign. The discipline of man
ners is so strict in respect to this matter
that an edict Of the project of the police
lately forbade Mussumanic women 10
enter the stores to make their purchases.
They had to stop at the merchants
doors, and he was obliged to fetch ont
into the street the thing that they wanted.
This law, which was incapable of being
enforced, could not be long maintained.
Cosmopolitan.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
Indian Surgery.

One of the pupils in the Indian Indus
trial School at Cirlisle, Penn, says in a
letter to friends at home: "Gov. Beaver
had one leg lost in the battle of Gettys-
burg, the time was civil war between
Southern and Union States, and Gov.
Beaver got shot in his leg. You know
white people like to cut off whenever
they get hurt about bone, SO Gov.
Beaver cut off his leg. But the Indians
never do that, they always do some
other way to make well. know man
broke his arm and the doctor had fat
sticks about two feet long, some strings
to tie with when he put some medicine,
put one stick the other side arm and one
stick the other side, tie up with string
so the maa got we'll without cutting off
his arm. But the white people always
cut it off,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
A French Story OF Il Toad.

1t is, perhaps, open to doubt if the
toad wears the precious jewel in its head
of which the poet speaks; but French
cure, a correspondent of NJ. Francisque
Sarcey's has met with toad which had
fortune in its throat had it only fallen
IN with an impressario. o. The cure hap
pened to call the other day on one of his
poorer parishioners, who, in compli-
ment to his visitor, added a fresh pro-
vision of fuel to the fice, which at once
blazed up, emitting a welcom, glow.
Attracted by the warmth as it would
seem, an enormous toad emerged from
under an old chest of drawers standing
in corner, hoped slowly up to the fro
and stationed himself in front oft like
pet animal, which in fact he was. The
peasant after few predatory words, pro-
cecdcd to drone out an old Gascon bal
lad and sang verse of it through. To
the abbe's intense astonishment, the toad
continued, or rather added sort of CO.
da to, the melody the moment his mas
ter stopped, singing first la, then a ia,
returning next to the first note, and con-
cIu ling on mi; the voice Of the little
singer was plaintive and musical, remind
ing the abbe of the notes of the harmon
ica. The peasant continued the ballad
to the end; the other amateur Ginning
in regularly with the same four notes at
the end of each stavc, keeping its eyes
fixed on its master throughout the per-
formance and evincing in its expression
and attitude manifest desire to do its
part in the concert to his satisfaction.
The peasant, who was ill at the time,
died soon after, and the cure, who had
meant to adopt the other inmate of the
hut, could Fl I'd no trace of him when he
went to fetch him. -[St. James Gaz ette.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
The Engineers Cat.

An engineer on the Wabash railway,
whose run is between Danville and
Springfield has cat which he would
not part with for love or money. 1t be-
longed to his wife, who is now dead, and
for year past it has been his constant
companion in the cab. The cat loves
its life Oh the rail and has grown sleek
and fat smiling the prairie winds. Or
dinarily it sits perched up at the cab
window before its master, but occasion
ally it strolls out to the pilot, where it
will ride for miles at stretch, winking
knowingly at the dog, which bark at
the train as it thunders by the cross
roads. Sometimes when the train is
approaching a station the adventurous
animal climbs to the top of the sand box
and calmly roosts there, undcterred by
The shrek of the whistle or the clang of
the bell. The engine has hal good luck
ever since the animal became an occu-
pant of the cab, and the trainmen look
on it as masc IT arainst disaster.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
PRICE THREE CENTS.
As the Sun Goes Down.

From over the meadow, sweet with dew,
Pucking tho flowers of brightest hue,
With laughingly, froicsome, tender eyes,
Rejecting the blue of the summer skies,
And graceful head with golden crown.
Came little maid as the sun went down.
The flowers she carelessly tossed about
And chased the bee with noisy shout,
And CHANGING to pass that way, she took
A timid glance at herself in the brook
And furrowed her face by smile and frown
And merrily sang, as the sun went down.
But the evening shadows, dark and tall,
Began to deepen along the wall;
She noticed the change with heavy sigh
For the hours that passed SO swiftly by;
She knew the shadows would cover ths
town,
And the day must die when the sun went
down.
How oft in our lives has golden day
Been evermore lost in idle play,
Pursuing folly-oh, eauzy thing
Only at last to feel its stings
When the weathered leaves of life arc
brown,
We sigh for the past as the sun goes down.
Ed. Cooley in the Current
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
How Jackson Entertained.

President Jacksons table manners
were as democratic as could be desired.
He had at each plate two forks one of
which was of silver and the other of
steel. The president used a steel fork
himself, and after his dinner ho always
smoked his tobacco from long-han-
died corncob pipe. Andrew Jackson
entertained lavishly on tho night of his
first Inauguration. The carpets of the
east room were ruined by tho orange
punch and lemonade which werc served
to the crowd which came to his recep-
tion. Barrels of this punch were made
and it was brought into the room in
buckets. At last the people began to
rush for the walters as soon as they en-
tered tho room. Glasses were broken
and ladies' dresses ruined. Tubs of
punch were taken into the garden, and
in this way the throng was drawn of,
and it was possible to serve cake and
wine to the ladies. At Jackson's
farewell reception a monster
cheese, as big as hogshead
in circumference and nearly q
yard thick, was cut with sawbladcs
made into knives and served out to the
guests. Each guest received three
pounds of cheese. The event was tho
talk OF the nation, and when Van Buren,
became President his New York friends,
cumulative Of Jackson, sent him big
cheese. 1t was cut up in the eastroom.
The greasy crumbs falling upon the car
pet were trampled into it, and the ruina-
tion of the furniture during these two
administrations led the later Presidents
to discontinue the practice of serving
eatables at general receptions. Now no
guest comes to dinner at the White
House unless invited. In Van Buren's
day, Bacourt, in his IS ,uvenirs dun
Diplomat" says that the Presidents
cook told his valet that for several
months preceding the election Of 1910
many persons arrived at the White House
for breakfast or dinner and threatened
to vote against Van Buren if they were
not entertained. The cook stated that
he had all the trouble possible in satisfy.
ing them, and they oftea returned what
he sent up, doing so on the pretext that
1t was uncatablc, and ordered something
else. [Lippincott.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19

A Californian has been telling how
iively Tombstone, Arizona, was few
years ago. II hired out as barkeeper,"
he says, Sin the principal saloon in
Tombstone. 1t was the biggest saloon l
ever saw. The bar was 60 feet long,
and every known gambling game was in
full blast. Every day or two there was
a shooting scrape aud somebody got
killed or wounded. Every time row
began l would drop quarter on the
floor and pretend that it had rolled
behind the whiskey barrels, and then /
would crawl in after it. was hunting
for money behind those barrels about
half of the time. Whiskey straight was
the regular drink, and if stranger
came in and ordered fancy drink, the
proprietor would pass ont whiskey
straight; and if the customer objected,
somebody would hit him over the head
with a revolver and drag him into the
street. You see, the people of Tomb
stone believed in having things after the
Arcadian simplicity model.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
A Pnrnlyzed Farmer.

A Detroit butcher named Joe Willch
was up in Mecosta county few daN
ago to sec some relatives. Joe is butt
after the old style architecture-one
story and q basement-and any man who
picks him up for aconsumptivc is bound
10 feel sad over the mistake. While out
riding one day with friend he came
across farmer who was trying TO
"yank" u stump out of the ground with
a yoke of feeble looking steers. The
stump had begun to "give," but the
steers strained and twisted and pulled
and couldn't bulge it another inch.
"What arc you trying to doa" asked
Joe as he stopped his horse.
Trying to pull out this stump sir, was
the reply.
"And the steers can't do it2"
mo. nor any other yoke in these
parts. Itll take pound of gunpowder
to lift that stump.
"Shoo! now, but take off your cattle.
Pm something on the pull myself"
"You! Say, do look like a foola
You can drive on, stranger"
But Joe jumped down, slipped the
chain off the yoke, drove the steers to
one side, and then walked over to the
stump and said:
Sometimes the dirt flies over half an
acre Of ground. Better shade your eyes. "
With that he spit on his hands, clas-
ped his arms around the stump, and with
out bulge of his eyes he lifted the
whole thing out of the earth and flung
it outside with the remark:
Shouldn't like any better fun than to
rull those steers backwards over the
fence, but VIC must be going now. So
Yong old man."
And he climbed in and drove off. At
:! bend in the road half a mile away
they looked back. The farmer stood
there, mouth open and eyes as big as
Bermuda onions. and when they waved
their hats at him he never moved
hair. He couldn't. He was para.
zcd.-[Dctroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
HUMOROUS.
The fish question-"Is it freshp

The fish question-"Is it fresh"
A dumb wife may be said to be an un.
speakable blessing.
1t is paradox that of all shoes felt
shoe is the least felt.
The parlor is probably the most frc.
quentcd of all court rooms.
1t i. foolish to handy words with
chemist; he always has retort handy.
The bootblack shines while he works,
but the lazy man whines while he shirks.
There is long haul and short haul,
but there doesn't seem to be any haul to-
gether.
Stocks and vessels are much alike.
When they get too much water in they
are liable to sink.
A cross old bachelor suggests that
oirths should be announced under the
head of new music.
A man with a whcelbarrow on the
sidewalk is not very popular, but he gen.
orally carries e9crything before him.
You can't convince a young man
whose bess girl has just said Yes" that
This country is going to wreck and
ruin.
Caler-"What the professor is not
at home? 1 see him there through the
curtaincd glass" servant-"oh, that
is only his shadow"
One of Boston's debating societies is
at odds on the question wheth the ex-
preston "a corner in pork" refers to the
animals ear or his foot.
An exchange has an article on "The
Rise and Fall of the Poet" One import
ant point is omitted, however, and that
is the length of the stairs.
Judging from floating newspaper para
graphs it would appear that Daniel
Webster was chiefly distinguished for
making first class fish chowder.
Cne thing settled about the Interstate
Commerce bill is that tramps will con-
tinue to take long and short hauls in
box cars provided they are not caught
at it.
Young Wiic-I took great pains with
that cucumber salad, John, and hop
you enjoyed it. Husband (anxlouslO-
l am afraid, my dear, that l took great
pains with it too.
A New Orleans editor has discovered
that fishing is hard work. 1t was general
ly supposed that fishing was easy enough,
but that it was the lying about the big
ones which got away that entailed the
hard labor.
Professor Ito class in surgery)--The
right leg of this patisnt, as you see, is
shorter than the left, in consequence of
which he limps. Now, Mr.. Sorter, what
would you do in a case Of this kino2
sorter I'd limp too.
They say out west that the appearance
in town of stranger in pair of mud
dy boots is sufficient to start a real es-
tate boom, and if he manages to have
an odor of petroleum or natural gas
about him, the excitement is immense.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
The Chinese Way.

In New York when burglar has
stripped a hcusc We conIide the secret to
detective, who keeps it and gets an
other detective to help him; the two
hold on to it like grim death till you
perish of old age. They manage things
differently, however, in China. Not
bong ago missionary's earthly mansion
was looted, and be in'ormed head
policeman, who merely said, I'll, hahw
and went away. Three weeks after
wards, however, the missionary received
champagne basket containing six human
heads packed in lin fol, not necessar-
lily for publ cation, but as an evidence of
coed faith, and note from the Depart
ne:.t OF Truth and Ju't;ce, stating that
the writer RENAME |. Yours truly, Hen
Yah ~
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
Very Green Peas.

Men arc usually the historians of u
country, and their works are apt to over
look the part taken by women in max
ing history. For years after we had
become great nation, only tradition
chronicled the deeds of the women of
the Revolution, or told how much they
suffered to gain peace and prosperity for
their children's children.
Mrs. Fremont preserves, in her "Sou.
venirs of my Time" one of these old
traditions which tells what that war
brought TO her great-grandmother who
carried to her grav, "King Georges
mark" long cut on her forehead from
the knife thrown by an Indian in the
British service.
One day several ssEHgaish officers, of
the brutal Colonel Tarlcton's command,
rode up to her house and demanded food
for themselves and their men. She po-
litely requested them to dismount, say
ing it would take an hour to prepare
dinner, and sent them to the bedrooms
to make their toilet.
At dinner, she appeared in her best
damask gown and petticoat. One of the
officers, surly, ill-bred man, seeing
that the peas were very green--they had
been boiled with lettuce to add to their
green color-rudely exclaimed: ~ be-
lieve, madam, you mean to poison us;
that is the meaning of all your fine airs. "
The lady made no reply save to send
for her youngest daughter. Taking the
little girl on her lap she quietly fed her
with the peas. Then turning to tho
officers, she said with impressive digni-
ty: "You may feel safe now, gentle
men. Whoever eats at my table, invited
or not invited, has my best. My hus-
band, my young sons, my brothers, arc
all in the Rebel army, and l pray for
their success and your defeat, but you
will receive no harm from me-"